Emotional And Psychological Effects Of The First World War

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War devastates anyone, the damage is emotional and psychological as well as physical. Everything we see in the news, in the newspapers, or hear on the radio is about battles, shots, weapons, and deaths. In the First World War, nobody really knew how destructive this dispute was going to be, no country in Europe was prepared for what was coming. The propaganda recruited the necessary soldiers and the only thing that was known was that the troops of the United States, France, England, and Russia were shotting against the German, Austro Hungarians and Turkish soldiers who at the same time threw bombs and attacked with chemical gases. That's what everybody notices on the surface of what war is. Just weapons, bullets, maps of other countries and

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